"The Letter"

Dear Hermione,

            There has been a memory replaying over and over again in the back of my mind, and its bout to drive me mad.  I needed someone to talk to about it, but that someone wasn't near.  So I tried to talk to Mum, Dad, Ginny, Harry, and even Percy but I gave up before I spoke because they weren't the ones I needed to talk to.  I don't think they would understand what I am going through with this memory.  So I tried to write you.  You are the only one who would understand.  You cannot imagine how many times I have written and rewritten this letter till I found it perfect.  I got Pig's hopes up so many times, he's still kind of mad at me!  And then finally I decided to give it to you when you came to the Burrow.  I thought it might be easier then!  I guess I won't know till I do!

            Hermione, the memory that I am talking about is the one of our fight.  I can't stop thinking about how stupid I was to not ask you.  I really wanted to, but my fear of rejection stopped me.  I want you to know how sorry I am for being so rude to you in the common room that night.  I also want to apologize for calling you a liar when you told me you already had a date.  And I also want to apologize for my attitude at the Ball.  I was out of line. 

            I couldn't help it when I saw you and Krum.  I lost it!  It drove me crazy to know that you two were there together, and that I wasn't him!  Hermione, I have feelings for you.  I have since our first year, and every year after that my feelings have done nothing but grow stronger.  I am beginning to think that I love you.  And that petrifies me.  All of these feelings are new to me.  I wish I knew how you felt.  That's the reason it took me so long to give you this letter.  I wasn't quite sure what you felt, and I still don't know.  But I decided to tell you how I felt anyways because if I didn't soon I would have exploded! 

            Now that's said I want to go into exactly how I feel.  Just promise me that you won't laugh, ok?  Here it goes!  You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen.  I can't keep my eyes off of you.  I know you must have caught me a million times in class looking at you.  You have the most beautiful, innocent doe eyes that sparkle as if God himself placed the most brilliant stars in them.  But do you know what truly makes you beautiful to me?  Your mind.  I am in awe of you because of how much you know.  I know that I have made fun of you for being a know-it-all, but in reality I am jealous of you.  I want to apologize for that.  I know it hurts your feelings.  It breaks my heart when ever you are hurt.  I just want you to be happy, and I am willing to do what ever it takes to make you happy.

            I don't know what I'd do with out you, Hermione.  The very thought of you no longer existing scares me.  When you were petrified, I prayed to God every hour of every day for you to return.  I don't thing Harry quite understood why I was as upset as I was.  Not saying that he wasn't upset, he was.  I was just somehow different.  I don't know how to explain it.

            I know this letter sounds strange; at least it does to me.  I can't believe that I have written it and that you are reading it now.  I just hope that if you don't have the feeling for me that I do for you, we can remain friends.  If I can't have you as my love, I'll have you as my friend always.  Well, bye then.

                                                                                                Ron